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Article: Data-driven management systems improve safety and accountability in New York City jails.
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- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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"If you don't measure it, you can't manage it." That is the mantra of the New York City Department of Correction. In 1995--when the department first began to carefully track such incidents--there were more than 1,000 "stabbings and slashings" in the city's jails. In calendar year 2006, there were just 19, and for the 12 months of fiscal year 2008 that ended July 1, there were once again only 19 incidents in which an inmate slashed or stabbed another. Furthermore, as the city's jails have become safer, analysis of other data shows that staff have become more confident in their work and safety, as evidenced by the fact that officer use of sick leave was cut in half during ...
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